The masochistic penance of T.E. Lawrence
In 1917, the same year a generation of Englishmen were being slaughtered on the killing fields of Europe, Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was captured by Turks at Der’a,...
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Parisiennes Flagellées
From Fetish Pop Culture, Parisiennes Flagellées, by Jean de Virgans, Paris, 1922. English translation of French Biblio Curiosa entry on Jean de Virgans. That site also links to Eros-Thanatos...
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Fantastic visits to the country of the whip: vintage flagellation erotica
The blog Au carrefour étrange has a set of images from a 1922 French book of flagellation erotica. Aimé Van Rod. Fantastic visits to the country of the whip. Illustrated with engravings and numerous...
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More French vintage bondage and flagellation
A quick sampling of the other posts on the A Carrefour Etrange blog: L’Étrange aventure de Miss Alice Simpson by Jean Bustarès, from 1922. No word on the story, but the pictures seem strongly on...
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Vintage Stereo-optic Lesbian BDSM
Gloria Brame has posted a set of stereo-optic 3D images, likely made in 1920s France, of Ff BDSM scenes.
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Vintage French illustrator Chéri Hérouard, aka Herric
The Seduction of Venus has a post on French illustrator Chéri Hérouard, aka Herric. Many of them feature lesbians (or tribades as they would have been known) who, in Paris at least, had very much come...
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London Life’s amputee fetish stories and letters
Amputee fetish site Overground.be has a collection of amputee fetish and letters published in London Life magazine, running from 1924 to 1941 and most signed “Wallace Stort”. Some of the letters also...
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Leopold and Loeb and their master-slave relationship
Baatz, Simon. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago. HarperCollins, 2008 Amazon I wish there were more case studies to examine in this field. It’s rare to find a...
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Man Ray, Lee Miller and William Seabrook: 1930s bondage
Mileaf, Janine. Please Touch: Dada & Surrealist Objects After The Readymade. Dartmouth College Press, 2010 As I’ve observed before, there’s a relative lacuna in BDSM history, between the Victorians...
View ArticleChapter 9, Fads and Fancies, completed
I’ve completed chapter 9, coming in at about 9,000 words. Technically, I completed it again, but I reshuffled things around a bit. Chapter 8 is now about the relationship between BDSM and...
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